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Hunt down

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To hunt something and capture or kill it. transitive
  2. 2
    pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) wordnet
  3. 3
    To destroy by persecution or violence. transitive
  4. 4
    To find with difficulty. colloquial, transitive

    "I managed to hunt down a surviving copy of the magazine."

Etymology

hunt + down

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